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‘The Story of an Epic Pilgrimage’.

‘The Story of an Epic Pilgrimage’, a commemorative publication produced by the Royal British Legion, to mark the Battlefields Pilgrimage of August 1928. Many people went of the pilgrimage, old comrades, present members of the army, families, woman and children. The aim of the Pilgrimage was to 1) the arranging and assisting of ex-Service dependants to visit the graves of their relations killed in the war; 2) to perpetuate the memory of those who died in the service of their country; 3) to promote peace and good will.